Turritella abrupta

Turritella abrupta

Di Boonman · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TurritellaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Turritella
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Turritella
Motility
facultatively mobilePBDB, for Turritella
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 30 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 50 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 50 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 50 occurrencesMiocene — about 44 of 50 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 50 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 50 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 7 occurrences11–8.9 Mya — about 12 occurrences8.9–7.1 Mya — about 11 occurrences7.1–5.2 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.2–3.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.4–1.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences33.9 Mya3.6 Mya57 Mya2 Mya

50 occurrences of Turritella abrupta on record, most of them in the Miocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

50 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

14 formations

Gatun — 9.28°N, 79.88°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.83°WGatun — 9.38°N, 79.82°WTuira — 8.41°N, 77.65°WTuira — 8.22°N, 77.57°WTuira — 7.88°N, 77.51°WTuira — 8.47°N, 77.70°WTuira — 8.19°N, 77.71°WZorritos — 3.67°S, 80.65°WZorritos — 3.75°S, 80.75°WUrumaco — 11.22°N, 70.25°WUrumaco — 11.00°N, 69.83°WTubará — 10.99°N, 74.95°WTubará — 10.40°N, 75.51°WTubará — 10.75°N, 75.00°WProgreso — 2.28°S, 80.43°WProgreso — 2.12°S, 80.47°WAraya — 10.82°N, 64.18°WAraya — 10.63°N, 64.30°WCaujarao — 11.00°N, 69.83°WCaujarao — 11.46°N, 69.32°WCardalitos — 3.66°S, 80.66°WAgueguexquite — 17.58°N, 95.08°WAngostura — 0.97°N, 79.57°WPunta Gavilán — 11.00°N, 69.83°WLa Rosa — 11.00°N, 69.83°WOnzole — 0.87°N, 79.89°W

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The named rock units Turritella abrupta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Turritella abrupta and its relatives

Miocene

Where Turritella abrupta and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

588 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Turritella abrupta, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

21 references

Each of the 50 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 9 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Turritella abrupta

Source
GBIF
Credit
Di Boonman
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTurritella through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Spieker 1922)